Thread: dog psychology books

Originally Posted by el borracho

Its an interesting subject and after a little research looking for a book I found some very interesting comments on the net .The guy Cesar Millan appears to be the man about town at the moment -I read some interesting things against his methodology .After work Ill see if I can find the stuff again

Dog psychology...gee you are a tough teacher, El B...all this required reading you set for us is doing my head in...dog psychology...what psychology...all we need to know is that he has titanium teeth, loyalty like none other, a nose 50000 times more acute than humans, acute hearing, can howl, yodel like a banshee, you need a minimum of three on the bed to keep you warm in really cold weather, dog liver is toxic to humans (ask Mawson and co), the list goes on...they reckon we have been associated with the canine for some 20 odd thousand years, so really if we do not understand them now, we never will...Stephen Budiansky in his book The Truth About Dogs concludes with "lets face it: if dogs truly were human, they would be jerks. As dogs, they are wonderful".

Famous dog trainers such as the ilk of Millan are no more clever with dogs than most...but for two factors...he exercises a practical and logical commonsense and is not afraid of canines (and screening dogs make good makes good ratings). I have watched two episodes of the television series...it is not the DOGS he was sorting out, but the HUMANS.